As stressful as it can be, at least you have a buddy to suffer with!

Seriously, I've flat-out explained to people my way of eating, but to avoid hurt feelings have become very creative about pushing small portions of carby foods around on my plate, pawning them off on my son or the nieces and nephews... sometimes the hostess just doesn't "get it" so subterfuge is in order..<heh heh heh> I had to tell my aging aunty with the cookies I just "can't have sugar", since the whole thing seemed to go over her head..

I like "potluck" since I can bring something acceptible, but stashing a low-carb bar in the purse has gotten me out of a few scrapes as well...